Slow internet

Ok, I have been sitting in front of my computer trying to up load pictures for an hour and a half and I can't take it anymore. Our Internet connection at home is just to slow. I hope you all will be patient with me and wait until I can use someone else's computer to upload with. So sorry!

Slip N' Slide at Grandma's

Friday was Grandma Taylor's turn to take care of the munchkins. This has become an increasing challenge as the summer has moved on as Nate and Cliff are a little tired of each others company. Anyway......Grandma took them to her house and they got to play on the slip n slide. Aunt Steph caught a few moments that were non violent to share!

Diapers!

Although many think that I am crazy, I am still excited about using cloth diapers and making cloth diapers. Here is a picture of Ryan modeling my latest creation. It is a fitted pocket diaper, so it has to be stuffed with something absorbent and it needs a water proof cover. I love it because it is much trimmer than his prefolds. It pins with a diaper pin in the middle of the front. I was well on my way to finishing another one in the same style when my sewing machine went on the fritz. Josh thinks he fixed it, but I haven't had time to check it out yet.

Baby Dedication

While Rex, Julie, Jason, Kim, and family were here we had Ryan dedicated. We wanted to make a public commitment to raise him in the church learning about Jesus. Since Josh was not with us when the twins were dedicated we had them come up as well and made the commitment together to raise all of our boys in the Lord. Josh and Jake are teaching the 3rd and 4th grade boys Sunday school class this quarter which includes Nate and Cliff. It is so awesome that our children have so many Godly men to look up to and learn from.

I may add pictures later as the ones that I have are terrible. I hope I can fix them or someone else has some that are better.

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Taylor Lake weekend

I am kind of getting my posts out of order since it has been so long since I updated. (sorry everyone!) Pray for me, as my attitude has been suffering!

Josh's Great Aunt and Uncle came to Nebraska a couple of weeks ago the same weekend that Jason and Kim came down with the family. We made it out to the lake for a few hours and had a great time. It was so neat to meet Rex and Julie and of course baby Cora.

All of the kids are getting so big. Callie likes to help with the babies. She wanted to carry Ryan, but he is a little to big for that, so she sat on my lap and "held" him for a while. Collin was having a bad day, but he took a break from being upset and "held" Ryan also. He really wanted Ryan to come out and play with him, and was a little surprised to learn that not only did Ryan not walk, he doesn't crawl yet either. Maybe by Thanksgiving he will be a little more fun to play with.

Camping

We went to the church camp out a week ago and had a great day on Saturday. The kids went fishing, canoeing, tubing, swimming, and jet skiing. I am sure that they did other things too, but those were the highlights. Clifton loves to be on the water and he stayed in the tube until Ray parked the boat. (Thanks Ray!) He then found a new friend to take him out on the jet ski (Brian I think, once again thanks!) When I came to drag him back to the camper he was crying "No! I am going tubing with Jeff now!" This was after he had been in the water for 7 hours with a brief lunch break! Nate also like to be in the water, but he is happier closer to shore. Fishing and a little bit of swimming are more up his alley. (Thanks Ray also for the casting lesson!) Josh and I were worn out from packing to get us there and didn't have much ambition. I did go out on the tube with Clifton for a while and let Josh take care of Ryan on shore. We had been trying to sell our camper so we had to completely repack it before we could leave. Ryan ended up sleeping with us in the double bed (we have a king at home) except for when he slept in the laundry basket beside the bed. He is almost to big for the laundry basket. (see picture below)

We had not tried to use any of the pluming in the camper, but I did figure out how to turn on the water pump Saturday evening. Sunday morning I got up to fix breakfast. I started my fire and got out my dutch oven and turned around to get my eggs when I realized that our coolers were gone. At first I thought maybe Josh and put them in the pick up, but it quickly became clear that some one had taken them. While I wondered if it was a practical joke of one of our fellow church friends we decided no, we really did get robbed. They took 2 coolers, one full of food, and the other with several containers of water. The camp stove that my parents purchased in 1982, a 12 inch cast iron skillet, and a 10 inch cast iron griddle. They left the regulator and the propane bottle for the stove.

While Josh was looking for his shoes to come out to investigate he stepped in a large puddle of water. The whole fresh water tank had pumped out on the floor in the back of the camper. Josh had forgotten to hook up a couple of hoses and I left the pump running out of ignorance. SO.....our camping trip ended on a sour note and I haven't much felt like blogging. Further more some people called and would have purchased the camper that day but we didn't feel right selling it to them full of water, so I guess that we will be keeping it and fixing it up. Josh is celebrating I am bummed. I would much rather take the tents and the suburban. He loves the camper and his big diesel pick up.